So, I just paused the episode. I can’t continue to listen to you guys talking about games anymore.

It’s all like “Yeah this game is popular, fuck that it’s laaaame!” Or “This mechanic in this game is universally appraised, we’re going to say that it sucks.” For example people seem to agree about the motion controls for Skyward Sword being awesome, have you guys put the motion sensor settings wrong or something?

I don’t know, maybe it’s because you guys worked one of the biggest trainwrecks in gaming history, Too Human. And Frank you worked on X-Men Destiny right? Another piece of thrash. Are you guys bitter or something?

Jeez, Rickard needs to chill out. Stuff like this is subjective, so expect to disagree from time to time. No need to make fun of the people bringing you free entertainment.

Guys, dont worry about BS like that, keep up the good work.

I think you guys missed the point about the choices that carry over in Mass Effect. This is understandable if you didn’t play the first game, particularly when they present the choices in such a binary fashion. The reason I think that these choices, and the fact that they carry over, are so powerful is because you become invested in the decisions you make. Its not so much how these choices affect the game, rather its how they affect you as a player. For example, I met Garrus when he was an ambitious C-Sec officer, I took him under my wing and he became an important part of my crew… he made it through ME2 with me, and the moment I was reunited with him in ME3 I got to shake his hand. That moment was the powerful moment for me, knowing that for some players he wouldn’t even be in the game if he died previously. I felt I earned my reunion with him, it wasn’t so much how it was presented in the game, but the emotions it brought out in me. If you didn’t even play the first game of course you aren’t going to have such an emotional attachment to all these characters. And a simple handshake would mean nothing. This is just one example, Rex is another… or my romance that I worked on through 3 games. I find it difficult to explain, but I think that discarding the impact of these choices as nothing but flags is unfair.

About frakking time. Seriously though, thanks.

For what it’s worth I didn’t buy Skyward Sword because the motion controls for it were supposed to be so bad.

Do you work for Nintendo Rickard? Only kidding, we’re all entitled to our opinion. I’ll make up my own mind when it comes down in price.

@Falsk – Definitely no spoilers…and definitely not a review

If I wanted to read positive kissass reviews of every game I’d read Game Informer. Keep up the great work, Game Junk! I appreciate honest and balanced reviews!

Sean, just wait til you get to Mass Effect 3. The action is way better and I love it in the second one.

Andrew: Tim Schafer didn’t get his adventure game rejected by publishers – he never pitched it to any publishers. What the game will be called, what it will be about etc. hasn’t been figured out yet and part of the stuff the documentary is about is also Tims process of figuring this kind of stuff out.

Dwyer, any of you guys going to be playing Guild Wars 2?

@Frank: Oh sorry, as the podcast is long I heard it in bits and pieces over the course of a day, and was at the computer when Andrew at a point mentioned, that it was rejected by publishers. At that time I had apparently completely forgotten you had said that first!

Also, Frank, what a tease! You can’t say something is not part of your all-time favorite trilogies, and then never mention which actually are your all-time favorites! I demand this subject return as a top five or something like that on next months show

Love the changes! Anything that brings more Gamejunk to my ears is ok by me!

So, yeah, I am not very surprised at the opinions on the whole ME3 ending debacle. I kind of figured that would be how most rational people would feel. It almost seems like some kind of meme lately for people to hate something like this to the point of demanding action. And I’m sure the ‘evil EA’ connection is at least partly responsible for raising this to a new level of nerd-rage.

I am curious if your opinions will change once you guys have actually seen what they did for the ending.

Without going into spoilers there are essentially 3 endings which are the same video with a different color effect on each. There’s supposedly very small differences with each of these main 3 endings based on a readiness percentage, but the choice at the end determines the ending and nothing done before that really matters in terms of the story.

Now, I’m not one of the people who demanded changes be made, but I will say it IS a weak ending. I thought it was OK myself (if weak), but I can see how some might be disappointed by it. I was okay with it mainly because the rest of the game really impressed me in terms of evoking an emotional response. It was really enjoyable to have an experience on that level with characters you had been building throughout the 3 games.

Anyhow, glad you guys discussed this! Hope to hear a followup once you all finally see the end.

@Dan – speaking of Genesis boxing games, Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal Boxing was the shit.